Petrarch, early Italian Renaissance and the classical tradition
Elected 1992
The literature of the English Renaissance, with special interests in legal or forensic rhetoric, women's writing and Anglo-Scots relations
Thought and literature of the European Renaissance; Shakespeare and Early Modern English literature; Rabindranath Tagore; textual studies; translation and translation studies; digital humanities
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture; the design, organization, and meanings of time and space in Russia; the Europeanization of the Russian elite and its transnational practices